(and don't you dare mod me off topic - its first rule of having a web domain innit???)
Education site replaced by porn
Web posted on 30/10/01 And for once, it's not the work of hackers.
An educational web site run by accountancy group Ernst & Young has been replaced with a site promising '160,000 uncensored XXX Teen Pics'. Before you blame the evil hackers, this little problem has been created by the Ernst & Young accountants, who didn't renew the domain www.moneyopolis.org for another year. If they'd have done it through GetDotted.com it would have cost just £19.99 for 2 years, fully inclusive of all fees. Sorry.
The site used to used as an educational accountancy game (boy, that sounds fun) and was used as a teaching aid by educational establishments. However, when the domain came up for renewal, the bods at Ernst & Young neglected it and anyone who wishes to pop in and check on their favourite accountancy game may find themselves staring at an altogether different kind of education. Ernst & Young have issued a warning to all users of the game, urging them to change their bookmarks. Yeah, let's all change our bookmarks from porn to accountancy.
Yeah, cos it would provide no efficiency savings at all to have to accelerate using an inefficient method to mach 5, then travel via a more efficient method for a potentially infinite distance.
The trust associated with a certificate from Thawte is that you can trust that code signed with a Thawte certificate is definately written by the company 'XYZ' specified on the certificate - I don't believe (m)any people believe Thawte are recommending their code - who knows who / what Thawte are apart from developers anyway?
Next they'll be buying NASA.com - my mate is a support geezer and got his manager ringing him saying 'I want to see the mars landings but www.nasa.com has just got breasts all over the place' - oh how we laughed...
>>First they have to promise not to use it for >>commercial purposes and then they have to fill >>out a form that asks them how many copies they >>intend to purchase, the timeframe, the company >>for whom they work, their title, their address, >>phone number, e-mail address, number of >>computers at their location, etc.
Er, that's called 'filling in a form'. Many people have done this before - takes like 2 minutes.
>>Do you have any idea of how long it takes for >>my friends with 56K modems to download a 7MB >>file (which PGP is)? About 30 minutes -- if >>they don't drop the connection. Then I have to >>go through the whole "you won't get a virus" >>lecture before they will cautiously try to >>install it.
That's called 'downloading software'. If it was integrated into the browser, it would be 7 meg more on top of that download. The 'virus' thing has nothing to do with PGP, so I'll ignore that. You could download it for them and burn a cd?
>>The freeware version, by default, installs >>VPN/Firewall. Then it wants to know which >>adapters you want secured. Yeah, that's what I >>want to try to explain to someone who majored >>in English Literature. Then it wants the user >>to enter a passphrase of at least 8 characters ->>- but not write the passphrase down anywhere. >>Another thing for them to remember -- which >>many of them will not.
I agree that sucks somewhat, but it's not beyond the wild realms of possibility that you say 'uncheck this box'.
>>I could go on and on, but it's not worth my >>time. Instead, I'll ask you a simple question: >>What percentage of your non-computer-geek >>friends use PGP and if it is so simple to use >>and free, why do do few use it?
None use it. No-one I don't know wants to read about what I drank last night. We use it at work. People don't use it because they don't want/need it.
People who *need* to encrypt know what it is.
People who *need* to encrypt aren't gonna not because 'that's what terrorists do'.
There *are* valid uses for encryption. Hope thats your points cleared up.
1. Install PGP (this involves pressing 'Next>' a few times.)
2. Make a key and distribute. (Using wizard and email).
3. Er, press the button before you send a mail - box comes up to choose keys, or you can just set a default.
No, you're right. The only people who care about people reading their mails are companies working on things they don't want their competitors to know about yet. Oh, that's all of them.
I find it hard to believe this drivel has been modded up! Who needs it?? Er, people who don't want others to read their email? Companies? Have you heard of the word confidential???
I don't support OBL in any way, but I'm pretty sure his religious beliefs are *just* about strong enough to starve himself to death in the face of such pathetic provocation. You ignorant fuck.
b) If there's one thing sadder than a karma whore, its the guy crying into his mummys skirt at the back about the extra meaningless geek points the other guy is getting. You big pussy.
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(and don't you dare mod me off topic - its first rule of having a web domain innit???)
Education site replaced by porn
Web posted on 30/10/01 And for once, it's not the work of hackers.
An educational web site run by accountancy group Ernst & Young has been replaced with a site promising '160,000 uncensored XXX Teen Pics'. Before you blame the evil hackers, this little problem has been created by the Ernst & Young accountants, who didn't renew the domain www.moneyopolis.org for another year. If they'd have done it through GetDotted.com it would have cost just £19.99 for 2 years, fully inclusive of all fees. Sorry.
The site used to used as an educational accountancy game (boy, that sounds fun) and was used as a teaching aid by educational establishments. However, when the domain came up for renewal, the bods at Ernst & Young neglected it and anyone who wishes to pop in and check on their favourite accountancy game may find themselves staring at an altogether different kind of education. Ernst & Young have issued a warning to all users of the game, urging them to change their bookmarks. Yeah, let's all change our bookmarks from porn to accountancy.
>> Moderation Totals: Flamebait=2, Insightful=1, Total=3.
Insightful - ha! Bloody hell, someone with a sense of humour!
Flamebait=2 - ha! Two 30 year old virgins better go downstairs, your mum has your tea ready...
Because it's an anti-MS statement, and slashdot is mostly inhabited by sad, bitter, linux-shagging fuckers? Duh!
Oh oh, there goes my karma, what a shame...
Yeah, cos it would provide no efficiency savings at all to have to accelerate using an inefficient method to mach 5, then travel via a more efficient method for a potentially infinite distance.
I assume this got modded up because it expressed an anti-microsoft stance? Or maybe its got something to do with Karma - i dunno!
I didn't say I trusted corporations explicitly, or at all, I said I didn't trust Dave.
but can someone please tell me the point of making your own certificate which you then tell your users machine to trust.
'Oh I trust the software from Dave because Dave made his own pretty certificate for it and put gold and silver stars on it and everything'.
If the certificate has no trustworthy third-party, it's a waste of time innit...
The trust associated with a certificate from Thawte is that you can trust that code signed with a Thawte certificate is definately written by the company 'XYZ' specified on the certificate - I don't believe (m)any people believe Thawte are recommending their code - who knows who / what Thawte are apart from developers anyway?
Next they'll be buying NASA.com - my mate is a support geezer and got his manager ringing him saying 'I want to see the mars landings but www.nasa.com has just got breasts all over the place' - oh how we laughed...
all MS programmers are crap.
Wait, hold on a minute...
down, because I'm a miserable fucker who can't get laid.
yeah, thought it might take a while for some to get - and some fucker put it down as offtopic ;-)!!
I knew it'd get 5 in the end...
Is this a misprint?
The biggest TV I've ever had was 12-inches and he said he'd never seen one bigger. Great tits as well.
>> Did you ever get to see Marina Sirtis (Deanna Troy) nude?
Well, if this doesn't prove the point of my earlier posting, I don't know what does!
to be watched and idolised by all these closet-homo no-mark never-been-laid spunky-y-fronted skinny geek-spekked gimp freaks?
aaahh thankyou vver muucch.
Well written argument for windows: 1
Gimpy badly formatted irrelevant reply supporting *ix stuff: 2
>> I really believed that is even yet possible with Linux until I configured my girlfriend's box.
This guy's girlfriend has a configurable box? Today blonde and trim, tomorrow dark and bushy. Is there no end to these open source guy's talents???
>>First they have to promise not to use it for >>commercial purposes and then they have to fill >>out a form that asks them how many copies they >>intend to purchase, the timeframe, the company >>for whom they work, their title, their address, >>phone number, e-mail address, number of >>computers at their location, etc.
Er, that's called 'filling in a form'. Many people have done this before - takes like 2 minutes.
>>Do you have any idea of how long it takes for >>my friends with 56K modems to download a 7MB >>file (which PGP is)? About 30 minutes -- if >>they don't drop the connection. Then I have to >>go through the whole "you won't get a virus" >>lecture before they will cautiously try to >>install it.
That's called 'downloading software'. If it was integrated into the browser, it would be 7 meg more on top of that download. The 'virus' thing has nothing to do with PGP, so I'll ignore that. You could download it for them and burn a cd?
>>The freeware version, by default, installs >>VPN/Firewall. Then it wants to know which >>adapters you want secured. Yeah, that's what I >>want to try to explain to someone who majored >>in English Literature. Then it wants the user >>to enter a passphrase of at least 8 characters ->>- but not write the passphrase down anywhere. >>Another thing for them to remember -- which >>many of them will not.
I agree that sucks somewhat, but it's not beyond the wild realms of possibility that you say 'uncheck this box'.
>>I could go on and on, but it's not worth my >>time. Instead, I'll ask you a simple question: >>What percentage of your non-computer-geek >>friends use PGP and if it is so simple to use >>and free, why do do few use it?
None use it. No-one I don't know wants to read about what I drank last night. We use it at work. People don't use it because they don't want/need it.
Is there free bloody karma points on here?
Here's the reason it didn't sell:
1) It's freeware.
People who *need* to encrypt know what it is.
People who *need* to encrypt aren't gonna not because 'that's what terrorists do'.
There *are* valid uses for encryption. Hope thats your points cleared up.
Extremely difficult steps to use:
1. Install PGP (this involves pressing 'Next>' a few times.)
2. Make a key and distribute. (Using wizard and email).
3. Er, press the button before you send a mail - box comes up to choose keys, or you can just set a default.
Yep - incredibly complex all the way.
No, you're right. The only people who care about people reading their mails are companies working on things they don't want their competitors to know about yet. Oh, that's all of them.
I find it hard to believe this drivel has been modded up! Who needs it?? Er, people who don't want others to read their email? Companies? Have you heard of the word confidential???
So you can mod that list to
and companies.
Yeah, no-one needs it, you're right.
Don't buy one then?
I don't want one of these so it sucks?
MOD THIS GUY UP!!!
I don't support OBL in any way, but I'm pretty sure his religious beliefs are *just* about strong enough to starve himself to death in the face of such pathetic provocation. You ignorant fuck.
a) The site is /.'d, so shutup you prick.
b) If there's one thing sadder than a karma whore, its the guy crying into his mummys skirt at the back about the extra meaningless geek points the other guy is getting. You big pussy.
Not that I *ever* browse porn sites, but pressing alt-F4 closes new windows faster than they can spawn new ones.